MOSH PIT
Why are they here?
What? En?
No way. You're still alive?
You pieces of shit, stop acting like you don't know!
You killed En and took his head, didn't you?!
En is dead. That's a doll.
A tool that's leading us to the real one.
I see. So the head is in that room.
Does that mean the Cross-Eyes' boss is also inside?
Well, anyway, as a cleaner of the En Family,
I'm going to
kill you all!
Dokuga!
Ton!
That Noi.
I told her so often to be careful of their attacks.
-Oh no! His magic! -I'll seal it before he uses it!
Dodging is easy if I know where you're aiming.
Hurry and escape through here!
-Hey, Ton! -One more time.
Idiots.
Ton! Saji!
You revived already? You monster!
Ushishimada!
Natsuki, you go get the boss.
Hurry…
Okay.
Noi, I'll leave the rest to you. I'll go after the doll.
Roger that!
Put the dismembered ones in a bag.
What?
What the…
There's no one here.
Are they out?
En…
What's this?
A hole in his head?
Aren't you quite a hard worker?
Come on, what's wrong?
You're starting to slow down.
Shall we end this?
Dokuga!
Use this!
What is it?
I said we'd already end it.
Boss…
These guys do futile things.
Dokuga!
Will everyone be okay?
I need to find the boss quickly!
Is he the boss?
What? En?
Stop it!
There's so much blood! What should I do?
Could it be that this person performed surgery on himself?
What should I do?
At this rate…
Haru, do you really know where Shin and the others are?
Yeah, easy-peasy.
However, it's boring. I don't care at all.
We're here.
The leader of the Cross-Eyes… Is that you, Ai?
HEALING A+
The crosses on his eyes are not tattoos like ours.
They're like birthmarks.
Whoa.
Excuse me, my name is Natsuki.
Nice to meet…
My name is…
Kai.
Noi, are you done over there?
Yeah, I'm all done!
This one wasn't dismembered, so I just put him directly in a bag.
Guess that's fine.
Shin, we're not going to kill these guys?
We can kill them any time.
But there are so many things I want to ask them.
Hey, where's the doll?
This is just like six years ago.
This feeling is like
the Hole.
What?
Smoke? Magic?
Impossible!
This is En's…
I see.
It's you.
You're…
I found you.
Wow, this place is a mess.
Yeah!
What is it, Haru?
I just thought of a great song. Listen to it.
Right now?
This time for sure, I will take everything from you.
Just like you took my life.
Blood dripping on the wall, so dirty
Why come to a dump like this?
I want to go home
Don't sing this kind of stuff. Just tell me directly.
A Devil's song!
Hey.
What's wrong, Hayes? Did you fall asleep?
Shocking.
Then, let's go home.
Boss.
Take this.
One month later,
the En Family was destroyed.
THE BEGINNING
CROSS-EYES IN THE NEWS
Fukuyama!
"One month after En's murder,
his huge mansion has been taken over by the Cross-Eyes."
"After losing their great boss, the En family has weakened rapidly,
with their members, including the servants, scattering."
-Go back to work, you idiot! -Ouch!
But you're curious too, aren't you, boss?
We were selling pie there until just recently.
That's what makes it even more upsetting.
Just when our wagon business was going so well.
Speaking of the Cross-Eyes, I wonder what happened to Caiman.
Well…
It's him we're talking about, so he's probably alive somewhere.
Hey, Dokuga!
What are you doing in a place like this?
I brought the stuff the boss asked me to,
but he won't let me in.
The boss is in this room?
Yeah. We're not supposed to disturb him when he's doing something alone.
What are you doing, Natsuki?
Saji asked me to gather all the valuables in the mansion.
But there's still a lot left.
That much?
Dokuga.
The Cross-Eyes are rich now. Rolling in cash!
Rich?
Hey, Dokuga!
Here's the additional stuff.
But this mansion is too big. We need a map.
Ushishimada, Saji, are you done cleaning?
Not at all.
The bodies of En's underlings who resisted when we took over the place
are still lying around.
What's inside this box?
-What? You want to see? -Yes.
I was just checking each of these bodies,
but I didn't see any of the top brass.
The two Cleaners are missing too.
But the boss is invincible now.
It's not a big deal.
Oh, yeah! I found something amazing!
It's in that room.
Gold bars!
What's wrong? You don't seem very excited.
Hey, I found something amazing!
A huge stock of daily necessities!
-Wow! -That's amazing!
So this is what being rich is like.
Hey! Isn't your reaction weird?
What on earth is this?
It's the door that leads to the Hole.
Used by people who can't make doors with magic.
So this is…
MUSHROOM
Mushrooms!
Is it morning?
That damn clock.
This is damn annoying.
But I can't throw away something that still works.
Dokuga! Come here, it's an emergency!
Right now, outside the mansion gate.
Let me in!
Let me see the boss!
You've got to be kidding. So suddenly?
What a bunch of opportunists.
Either way, we need to talk to the boss.
I thought so too, and I looked for him, but he's nowhere to be found.
Seriously? Again?
What do you mean?
Boss…
People who can't use much magic are starting to gather at En's mansion.
What is the Cross-Eyes' goal?
And what is the identity of the Cross-Eyes' boss?
This is ridiculous.
Ma'am, I'll leave the money here.
Thank you!
I've got nothing at all to do.
I wonder if there isn't anything fun to do. Anything like…
Come on, use some magic.
I can't. I can't use it.
Why not? You're a student there, aren't you?
Come on, use it.
Please stop it.
Don't get cocky, you piece of trash.
You guys are just like the people from the Hole.
All right then, you'll be my practice dummy.
What? Who the hell are--
That was some good exercise to help digestion.
-Excuse me, you're Aikawa, right? -What?
It's me! We were in the same class at Zagan's school.
Really?
That school was shut down by En a few years ago
because it was a hotbed for the black powder the Cross-Eyes sold.
Right…
But a new school was built recently.
It's really close by.
ACCEPTING APPLICATIONS FOR TRIAL ENROLLMENT
-Did you submit your application? -Yeah.
Isn't this place great? I like it.
But I'm worried.
The Cross-Eyes will be dealing black powder again for sure.
People just began practicing again once that stuff disappeared.
Everyone at school only talks about the Cross-Eyes too.
People are happy that they destroyed the En family.
By the way, how's Risu doing?
Well, I don't know.
Aikawa, I'll treat you to something at the cafeteria.
Cool!
You bastard, Aikawa!
You work at this school too, old man?
You bastard! Don't come to school!
Bye-bye! See you tomorrow!
See you tomorrow!
Do I really have to start guarding the school lunches from him again?
Now, what should I do today?
It's also been a while since I came here.
Risu. Hey, are you there?
Ton, are we going to accept those people into the Cross-Eyes?
Maybe yes.
But aren't they just after money?
Probably yes. But we've been using people like them.
We pay them for work, then rule them through fear of the boss.
But if we let them into the mansion,
there might be some who could try to assassinate the boss.
I have an idea for that.
I found this the other day.
One of En's businesses is a magic inspection system.
It can quantify the level of Sorcerers.
If we check them before they enter,
we can tell whether they're assassins.
Please check me too.
Sure!
You'll definitely be disappointed.
What is this black liquid?
That liquid's been in the boss's room for a long time.
And where did the boss go?
Gone for a long time again?
That won't happen. This is different from that time.
Seriously, Dokuga. Could you just tell me already?
Just what happened to the boss back then?
Promise not to tell the others?
Sure. But why?
The boss found someone with special magic, and he wanted that magic.
That was Risu.
I see. It's Curse-type!
Right.
Risu's magic is Curse-type.
It befalls the one who kills him.
The deal is at 4:00 p.m. today at the ruins in the Salmanazar Field.
Can I bring my partner with me, as usual?
He's not a member of the team, but I trust him.
No, you can't. You must go alone.
Is this okay, Dokuga?
That's Risu? I've never seen him before.
Is it okay to trust him? This is an important deal.
It's fine.
Who's that guy with Risu?
He's Risu's partner. His name is Aikawa.
They always hang out together.
Aikawa…
After that, Risu was probably killed by the boss at the Salmanazar Field.
So the boss was cursed after killing Risu?
Why did you keep such an important thing a secret?
I thought it was better if everyone didn't know.
That the boss could kill a Cross-Eyes member without hesitation.
But we need the boss to survive, right?
Tetsujo.
We, too, might be using the boss, in a way.
Who killed me?
Why did you kill me?
You are not a Sorcerer.
You are a fake.
Why? Why was I killed?
Why do you ask? You should already know.
Who knows about this magic?
No way! I mean…
Hey!
I bought that self-magic testing machine we talked about the other day.
The one from En's brand.
And I found out something amazing.
It's not confirmed yet, but I'll tell only you.
Risu!
Risu, do you recognize me?
It's me, Aikawa. Your partner.
I know, Aikawa.
There's no way I'd forget you.
What the hell happened to you?
Looks like you've been through hell.
It's okay. I'm here for you.
Let's go to school together again.
Okay?
Oh, yeah! Are you hungry? I'll get you something to eat.
Thank you, Aikawa.
Don't mention it.
Where am I? What's going on?
I remember the Cross-Eyes…
Shin!
So you finally woke up.
It took you unusually long to recover, Noi.
It's been a month since then.
You're…
-Who are you? -What? It's me!
A member of the En family! A Sorcerer who makes anything invisible!
I'm Sho!
Oh, Sho!
I went on a journey for a while after the Blue Night Festival.
When I heard En was dead,
I secretly returned to the mansion and watched over all of you.
You stayed invisible with your magic? Why?
Because it seemed like everyone had completely forgotten about me.
I used to work as an assassin for the En family,
but my magic may have dulled my presence.
It was common for everyone except En to completely forget about me.
I was at the Blue Night Festival too.
You were, right? You were definitely there!
I see! So you were the one who saved me.
More importantly, where's Shin?
Please put on some clothes.
But Shin is probably already…
What?
Shin…
I tried to use some kind of healing-type smoke to bring Shin back to normal,
but it took all my effort just to keep the mushrooms fresh.
Huh? Noi!
What are you doing? You're still recovering.
Besides, the Cross-Eyes boss's magic is different from En's.
Whoa!
There's no way I'm going to lose to that bastard's magic.
What an incredible smoke density!
What are you doing?
Shin, thank goodness!
I'm so glad!
Thanks, Noi.
All right, they're already forgetting that I exist.
Maybe I should just disappear.
THE END
What we learned in Episode 9.
Shin's serious mode is the forward-facing mask.
The Cross-Eyes' dream is finally fulfilled.
Aikawa and Risu reunited.
What we'll learn in Episode 10 is still hidden in chaos.
This is Dorohedoro.